London County Council
Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1723 - 1792, portrait painter, lived and died in a house on this site.
WC2, Leicester Square, 48
There are actually 2 plaques, with the same wording, on the building, one at first floor and one at ground floor level.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Born in Plympton, Devonshire. Came to London in 1753. As a student of Italian...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Sir Joshua Reynolds plaque
Prior to the LCC London matters were run by church parishes. The LCC was the ...
The 7 plaques are on different faces of the frontage of the building. We've numbered them left to right. Plaque 3 can be seen in our phot...
This is a lovely plaque but the fireman's helmet on a plaque for a police constable is odd. It doesn't even seem as if a fire was involved.
2016: Until recently this building used to house the Angel and Crown pub. It's now a themed bar/restaurant and this "blue plaque" is all...
As far as we can tell this never was the site of Toynbee Hall which appears always to have been sited at 28 Commercial Street, as it stil...
Anna Laetitia Barbauld, 1743 - 1825, poet and writer, lived in this house from 1802 and died here. London Borough of Hackney
Born 6 Oval Road, Camden Town. Also did the bronze group with clock at the entrance to Selfridges; Oxford Street (1928); the lovely sculptural work on 1 Wigmore Street (1925) as shown at Ornamental...
Our photograph shows the whole four-house terrace. From the ODNB: These houses were built 1777-8, among the first houses in London to b...
This garden acquired its name due to its popularity as a lunchtime garden with workers from the nearby General Post Office (long gone). ...
Seems very odd for the chosen illustration to be of a computer game.
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